Just home from a zumba class at the Y here in Victoria. Took the risk and went to a class. Okay, so who said exercise gives you an energy boost? No way no how…I’m knackered! BUT it sure was FUN getting there 🙂 And really it was worth all the effort and the risk of
For the past few days, I’ve had trouble getting down to creating. Why? I could say I haven’t a clue but really I do know at least part of the reason. What I’m talking about is distractions. Like email. Like eating. Like grocery shopping. Like laundry. Like email. Like googling some news I heard
It was Whistler last time and now it’s Plaskett inspiring me to try leaving part of the paper untouched by pastel (see my last blog on Joseph Plaskett’s pastels by clicking here). I’m also influenced by Plaskett to try more colourful paper than I used in Sheep’s Folly (see my Whistler inspired pastel here).
So you know how in my last blog I talked about the way James MacNeill Whistler left much of the paper bare when creating his pastels (see for instance, The Beadstringers) and that it was actually a difficult thing to do? Well this morning I took up the challenge…….and found that I was right!
It’s the evening of Sunday 30th of December as I write. All is quiet and the moon, spied once or twice through a parting of the clouds, still looks full. The sidewalks are empty and there is little movement on the streets. There is a hush in the air, expectant perhaps, as we move
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